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Device and system for detecting abnormality

US6989742B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 23, 2002
Grant dateJan 24, 2006
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Expiry dateAug 6, 2023

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG08B31/00
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An abnormality detection device includes small motion sensors that detect small motions of a person in a house; a data collecting unit that collects and stores sensor signals from the small motion sensors as sensor patterns, and a Markov chain operating unit 33 that transforms the sensor patterns into a cluster sequence by vector-quantizing input patterns which are obtained by averaging and normalizing the sensor patterns, and calculates a transition number matrix and a duration time distribution of a Markov and so on using a Markov chain model. The abnormality detection device also includes a comparing unit that calculates a characteristic amount (Euclid distance and average log likelihood in an appearance frequency of a Markov chain and an average log likelihood to the duration time distribution of a Markov chain) of a sample activity as against a daily activity based on the obtained transition number matrix and the duration time distribution and so on.

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